An amusing tirade but politics and economy tend to go hand in hand, especially when it comes to superpowers. And there are far more brutal examples of it going on as we speak. Blocking access to essential medicine and food comes to mind. Outside the virtue signaling bubble and PR facades the world is a very Machiavellian place.
Feel free to run over people, there's no shortage of them.
Women are dead weight, don't hire them.
Think what's useful, not what's good or bad, true or false.
Always ask yourself what's in it for me.
Space colonization is a wonderful opportunity to create unique civilizations, each pursuing their own destiny. Where does your sadistic desire to control the future of entire mankind come from?
Ability to choose different paths is far more appealing than suffering under some inescapable dystopian global diktat you have in mind. So yes, we should extend tribal thinking to space. Platitudes like "we are single human race" are as meaningful as saying we are all life.
Yep, expect no privacy in any app that requires a phone number. At least in most places. More than 150 governments require a proof of identity to purchase a SIM card.
> even for Twitter's ridiculously ineffective controls on hate speech
Twitter's controls are not that ineffective as much as they're selective. They were banning people for learn to code jab at journalists and doing nothing about blatant hard core misandry and racism directed at white men. If they're trying to radicalize more people, they're doing a great job.
An amusing tirade but politics and economy tend to go hand in hand, especially when it comes to superpowers. And there are far more brutal examples of it going on as we speak. Blocking access to essential medicine and food comes to mind. Outside the virtue signaling bubble and PR facades the world is a very Machiavellian place.